An obelisk was found on the third floor of the T.J.Nelson Innovation Center. Ava, the student who found it behind a dusty bookshelf, described being drawn to it "like an acolyte unto a God. There is a great disaster coming; you must heed my words."

 

The obelisk has been measured on several different occasions, and is a different size every time. "It doesn't seem like it wants to be known," Doctor Smith said, "It hovers around six feet tall, but every other measurement is up for grabs."

 

Smith was contacted by school authorities shortly after the obelisk's discovery. When The White Pine Press asked about his credentials, he politely declined to answer, citing "national security."

 

The third floor has been cordoned off, as attempting to move the obelisk has been deemed too dangerous. They stopped trying after the first man to touch the obelisk collapsed from a heart attack.

 

Students who saw the obelisk before it was isolated have claimed to have had visions and dreams of a dead world. "I saw a pyramid floating in an abandoned concrete atrium." One student said. "A crevice opened on one side, and the pyramid was dark and hollow. I didn't see anything in it, but I felt something staring back at me, waiting for me to leave before it came out into the light. I stared at that door for what felt like years. And then I woke up. You've got to tell them to destroy it, please. Please."

 

Another student said he dreamed of "a vast desert, with mechanical wrecks scattered in the sands. There was a massive metal ceiling miles above me, pulsing with electricity and wires."

 

Smith has not commented on these claims.

 

Concerns about secrecy around the obelisk have been voiced by many students and faculty members. NMC Campus Security has not been allowed to enter the library, Smith instead assigning the task to his personal guard of federal agents. NMC Security still watches over the other floors of the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center. Robert Preston, an NMC Safety & Security staff member, said, "We hear chanting at night. I'm not sure these guys are actually with the government; something's going on up there."

 

When we attempted to reach Smith for comment, we found that the stairs of the Innovation Center no longer led to a third floor, instead looping back down to the second. The second floor of the Innovation Center has been turned into the new library for the foreseeable future. Nobody has seen or heard from Smith or any of his guards for three days.

 

Not much later, the third floor of the Innovation Center disappeared. When asked about what had happened, NMC President Nick Nessley said, "What? The Innovation Center's never had a third floor. Is this a prank?"

 

He had no recollection of ever contacting Doctor Smith, nor any of the events leading up to his contact. None of the student body remembers either. As far as the campus of NMC is concerned, an obelisk was never discovered on the third floor of the Innovation Center.